Critical Ventures

Critical Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Coimbra, Portugal, founded in 2011, focused on seed and early-stage investments across IoT, automation and digitalization, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, decentralized tech, user experience design, mobility, and medical software. The firm provides capital along with strategic guidance and practical expertise, working closely with entrepreneurs to nurture growth. It operates with a founder-led culture, aiming to help startups build sustainable, market-leading businesses by supporting them through early stages with hands-on involvement and without relying on repeated fundraising rounds.

Pedro Murtinho

Partner

Past deals in Alabama

RunSafe Security

Series B in 2024
RunSafe Security is a cybersecurity company that focuses on cyber-hardening transformations to protect embedded systems and devices from memory corruption and buffer overflow exploits. Its patented Alkemist technology inoculates systems from a broad class of cyber attacks by stopping infections at their source, while its tools harden files and programs and integrate across build and deploy toolchains to safeguard open source code, in-house code, and third-party binaries, supporting critical infrastructure sectors such as automotive, data centers, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, national security, and more. The firm provides real-time monitoring of bus messaging to differentiate malicious communications from legitimate traffic, blocks unapproved protocols before transmission, and helps reduce vulnerabilities by eliminating attack vectors. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an additional office in Huntsville, Alabama, the company was founded in 2015 and serves customers across manufacturing, IIoT, and related industries.
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